** From Fred Runk to Suzze Tiernan on 24 Oct 97  15:04:00
 ** Re: Hammett
 FR> Who, if anyone, would be your favorite writer from the Golden Age
 FR> of the Mystery?
 SH> Dashiel Hammett.
 ST> Our Mystery reading group a the store is reading "The Thin Man" for
 ST> our January meeting. I am looking forward to it, as I have never read
 ST> any of his work.
 FR> There were several movies, decades ago, featuring a detective called
 FR> "The Thin Man."  I wonder if it was the same character.  I also
 I believe it was.  Hammett also wrote for Hollywood, so it's possible
 he did the adaptations.  (Don't have a reference at hand, so I can't be
 sure of that.)
 FR> remember a radio detective who was called "The Fat Man."  The intro was
 FR> "he tips the scales at 250 lbs, his fortune DANGER!"  or something like
 FR> that anyway--it was awhile ago.
 That might also have been based on Hammett -- specifically the
 "Continental Op" stories.  (The protagonist of that series is never
 named. but he is on the protly side.)
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